Hello, I'm new to Eclipse, just played a little in the past, but I generally used: Dreamweaver on my first years, next Netbeans, finally PHPDesigner. I'd like to try Eclipse PDT seriously, but I opted to install the classic app and then install PDT and Aptana as plugins.

which updatesite are you using to install PDT? The version 3.1.1 is not available yet in the built-in updatesite, so i assume you are using some different updatesite which might not be able to resolve the PDT dependency to the Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK).

However I'm not sure if everything was ok. There is no PHP perspective. There is no PHP tab when I click on New. Just the default settings: PHP Project option, and a Web tab. I mean Eclipse still doesn't make you easy to create PHP files, classes, PHP templates, etc. It's still mainly aimed at Java.

No idea about this issue? It would be a pity not to be able to properly use Eclipse for PHP, since I like it a lot how the GUI looks.
Now I'm using Netbeans, which is very powerful, but I don't like its GUI somewhat.
I also used phpDesigner 8 trial and I liked it a lot in the way that it provides plenty of code assistance, but I found it a bit buggy to purchase it. And Nusphere phpEd is extremely powerful but I consider it too expensive.